Bushnell Trophy Riflescope 3-9x40mm, DOA 600

[Big Bill]

Today I bought and installed a Bushnell Trophy Riflescope 3-9x40mm, DOA 600. It has the mil-dots and it also allows one to judge the range by hash marks on the distance lines based on the distance from ear tip to ear tip on a mule deer or whitetail deer. I was very impressed with it and my gunstore sold it to me for $89.99 on clearance. I thought it was a good deal. I changed out my Simmons on my Savage 300 wsm for the Bushnell. I was just wondering if anyone has had any exoperience with this scope?

 

[Maverick223]

No experience with that reticle, but the Trophy series is a good scope. Far better than the Simmons (unless it is an old AETEC, in which case it is still better) it replaced. I don't believe you got a door buster price, but it was fair (perhaps better solely due to the upgraded reticle).

 

[Big Bill]

Suggested retail on Bushnells site for the DOA 600 is almost $200. I took the Simmons off my savage and put it on an old Remington 788. I'll use the old 3x9 Tasco that I took off the 788 on one of my 22s.

 

[Maverick223]

MSRP lies, just did a quick search and came up with the lowest price of $123.28 with free S&H...that said, you still did well and got a good scope that you got to take home today. These optics have served me well for years when other "budget optics" have failed. They don't tend to have the best glass (not bad, but better exists), but they hold zero and refuse to die and in a rifle scope that is paramount.

 

[Big Bill]

Thanks Mav... Your posts have been a big help. I'll probably be shooting Federal Fusion 165 gr. The manual says 180 gr ammo is compatable. So, I guess I'll just have to see.

 

[Maverick223]

NP, I am glad that I was of some help; thank you for the kind words. You might be able to use a slightly different magnification and have the stadia line up, however I believe that you will find that you need a higher magnification than the one used for the BDC, which is at the highest magnification. The only way to get a good idea is to run the numbers in a ballistics program like Point Blank and see how much the trajectory varies.

If it drops more that the calibration load (used by Bushnell) then you should be able to slightly modify the magnification to compensate, but if it drops less I don't think there is anything that will help remediate the problem (but in any case the difference shouldn't be significant). Unfortunately, to complicate matters, I don't belive that Bushnell offers in-house software that will compute the desired magnification for you (like Zeiss uses for their Rapid-Z reticles). Good luck and let me know how it turns out.